Leave it to Max (Lori's Classic Love Stories Volume 1) by Lori Handeland

Author:Lori Handeland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: love, children, humor, savannah, contemporary, contemporary romance, secret baby
Publisher: Lori Handeland

Chapter 10

As soon as Livy snapped her seat belt into place, Klein put the car into gear. Although she would have liked nothing better than to lean her head against the seat and rest, Livy didn’t have the time or the luxury.

“What’s the charge this time? Civil disobedience? Creating a public nuisance? Littering? Soliciting? What?”

Klein gave her a slow sideways glance. “Theft.”

“No way.” Livy’s response was automatic. “Impossible. My mother is the least covetous person I know. What on earth would she steal?”

That slow glance came again, but this time Klein’s lips twitched. “A goose.”

“She didn’t.”

“The sisters say otherwise.”

Livy should have known this was coming. She should have expected it. Her mother had been fuming over the sisters’ ghost goose for months now, and she hadn’t been fuming silently. Everyone in Savannah knew how Rosie Frasier felt about that goose. What should have surprised Livy was that Rosie had waited this long to take action.

“What, exactly, do the sisters say?”

Klein didn’t answer right away, instead concentrated on the road as he negotiated a one-way square.

Savannah was beautiful, ancient and special. But the historical section was difficult to navigate. There were no cross streets, only square upon square. To get from one side to the other, a driver needed to be familiar with the streets, then drive up some, down others and around and around at times. Which made it much easier to walk.

At last Klein came out of the one-way roundabout and returned his attention to Livy. “Rosie felt the goose was being exploited.”

“Tell me something I don’t know. With her, someone’s always being exploited.”

“She called for its emancipation.”

“And?”

“The sisters say she emancipated it.”

“I was afraid of that. She’ll give it back.”

“You really think so?”

Livy opened her mouth, shut it again, then scratched her nose. “We could pay for it?”

“That would work with any other goose. But the reason the sisters are so mad, the reason they’re pressing criminal charges...”

“Besides the fact that they’ve got the feud of their lifetime going with Rosie?”

“Besides that, I hear this goose is exceptionally rare.”

Livy started seeing those black flecks again. Only this time they were shaped like dollar signs. “How rare? Give me numbers, Klein.”

“Not money rare. Trained rare.”

“Trained?” Livy scoffed. “The thing stays in the yard. I’ll buy them a poodle.”

But Klein was already shaking his head. “They want their goose back. Nothing else will do. Your mother had better cough up one trained goose quick.”

“She will if I have to give her the Heimlich myself.”

Klein slowed to the curb. Livy’s gaze went from her darkened home to the lights next door. “I should probably leave Max here rather than drag him off to see Gramma in jail.”

“I don’t think it’ll scar him for life to see Rosie in jail. Might help him to understand where she spends so much of her time.”

“Let’s hope so.” Livy shoved open the car door.

“Does Max know?”

She glanced back at Klein, puzzled. “What?”

“That Stark is his father.”

Could a person’s heart really stop? For an instant, Livy thought hers just might.

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